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DEFENSE COUNSEL TOLD THE COURT DURING THE PRE-TRIAL SUPPRESSION HEARING THAT DEFENDANT WAS NOT CONTESTING HIS CONSENT TO THE INTOXILYZER BREATH TEST; SUPREME COURT PROPERLY DENIED DEFENDANT’S ATTEMPT TO RAISE THAT SAME SUPPRESSION ISSUE DURING TRIAL; THE DISSENT DISAGREED (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, over a dissent, determined defendant’s attempt, during trial, to suppress the results of the Intoxilyzer breath test was properly denied. Defense counsel had told the court, during the pretrial suppression hearing. defendant did not wish to contest the validity of his consent to the breath test and, consequently,  the prosecutor did not introduce a video of the procedure:

A defendant may move to suppress the results of a chemical test administered pursuant to Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1194(3) (see CPL 710.20[5]) by filing a motion “within forty-five days after arraignment and before commencement of trial, or within such additional time as the court may fix upon application” (see CPL 255.20[1]). CPL 255.20(3) prescribes that for pretrial motions filed outside the 45-day limitation, the court “must entertain and decide on its merits, at any[]time before the end of the trial, any appropriate pre-trial motion based upon grounds of which the defendant could not, with due diligence, have been previously aware, or which, for other good cause, could not reasonably have been raised within the period specified.” The section also provides that any other motion not filed within the specified time “may be summarily denied.”

The record indicates that when counsel made the omnibus motion, dated September 12, 2017, defendant was well aware of the facts underlying the administration of the Intoxilyzer breath test and, for reasons that are not apparent, chose not to file a motion on that ground. People v Marte, 2021 NY Slip Op 04648, First Dept 8-5-21

 

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